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'In the late 1990s, eight friends went looking for the most degraded,
clapped-out piece of farmland they could find.
Not to live on, or to make money from, but to transform into the bushland it
once was.
The reality of climate change had entered the mainstream collective
consciousness, and the government had recently limited the scope of the
Native
Title Act, which was born out of the historic Mabo decision that capsized the
myth of terra nullius.
It was against this political background that Phil Meldrum and his friends
dreamt of rehabilitating a patch of land.
"[Land] has been degraded, exploited and used economically, we just wanted to
explore a different kind of relationship to country," Mr Meldrum said.
In 2001, after three years of searching, the friends pooled together $19,000
and purchased 134 acres near Moonambel in central Victoria.
As soon as they saw the "ugly" hill, they knew they'd found what they were
looking for.'
Via
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